Yesterday my gaming shop had a small tourney to introduce everyone to the new rules. 1000 points and you could change your list between games. When I showed up there were already 8 people so I had to sit out the first round, but then one of the players quit and I played the remaining 2 games.

First of my games was against goblins and it was the chance meeting scenario, I don't remember the name. I brought a runesmith with MRoBalance which helped tremendously in all my games, effectively shutting down the magic phase. The game was totally in my favor, the grudge thrower hit for the first 4 turns in a row, only needing the RoAccuracy once during that time. The very first shot I placed on his goblin general/level 3 or 4 magician and he failed the look out sir roll and took a rock right to hit face taking him out on the first shot. Later I destroyed one of his 2 stone throwers with it, and was able to take large chunks out of his 40 blocks of goblins. In the end I won by only 150 points because of the new victory point rules, it would have been a much larger margin in 7th, but it was a win none-the-less.

Second game was defend the watchtower scenario, which I actually kind of liked. It probably helped that I played against WoC who couldn't hold the tower because they would frenzy out. After reading the rules for shooting at building I decided to take the organ gun and a unit of 20 slayers instead of ironbreakers, figuring they would be able to hold in the tower indefinitely. My opponent started in the tower with a unit of 10 warriors, and since he was the one in the tower I got to go first. First thing I did was to move my slayers up to assault the tower and clear the LoS for my quarrelers. In shooting the organ gun only killed 1 warrior because of not so hot rolls. But it is the BEST war machine for clearing out a building! Because it auto hits and causes up to 10 wounds, it can easily take out a small unit in the tower. It's better then a grudge thrower because they, as well as cannons, can only hit D6 models in the building. This was well demonstrated on my last turn as he had 6 warriors in the tower and the organ gun fired 10 shots and wiped them out. Unfortunately I lost because of horrible luck in the 3rd turn which caused my big unit of warriors with runesmith to flee combat and be run down. After that he was able to get spells off and kill my thunderer unit, which by then was the last unit left that could take the tower for me. The slayers had gotten hacked to pieces after his warriors that did 4! attacks each assaulted them. Even with only 10 models he took 20 slayers out in 3 rounds of combat. They killed 4 in return. The result was a loss to me.

My thoughts overall were positive, the grudge thrower is awesome when it hits, which for me was often. The organ gun destroys units in buildings, so take it if you ever play that scenario. Runesmiths and Runelords are incredibly effective with the MRoBalance. I typically ended up with more dispel dice then my opponents had casting dice. Finally, don't get into combat with a unit that can do 28 attacks with 10 men.